William Watson was born on August 2, 1858 Englishpoet wrote lyrical and political verse. He is known especially for his brief, epigrammatic poems, 1858-1935
Wallace Stevens died on August 2, 1955 Americanpoet whose work explores the interaction of reality and what man can make of reality in his mind. 1879-1955
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.
